Reddit announced that it was the victim of a phishing attack aimed at its employees, resulting in unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. Advice on managing device location-tracking settings to ensure...
In this episode host Tom Eston sits down with Kathleen Smith, Chief Outreach Officer at ClearedJobs.net, to discuss the current state of the job market in the cybersecurity industry. With a recent surge in layoffs, Kathleen provides advice for those...
The attacks on password managers and their users continue as Bitwarden and 1Password users have reported seeing paid ads for phishing sites in Google search results for the official login page of the password management vendors. Not only that, a new...
A hacker discovered a copy of the US No Fly List, which contains the names of people banned from traveling in or out of the US on commercial flights, on an unsecured Jenkins server connected to a commercial airline. Will AI-powered phishing become a...
On this week’s episode, We’re excited to bring you a classic conference talk that Tom Eston gave with co-host Kevin Johnson back in 2009 at DEF CON 17 in Las Vegas. The talk is called “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your...
Facebook has been ordered to pay a fine of $414m by EU regulators who ruled that the company had broken EU law by forcing users to accept personalized ads. The ruling could have a major impact on Facebook’s advertising business in the EU...
Things get worse for LastPass as a security breach in November resulted in the theft of customer data, including encrypted password vaults and unencrypted web addresses. Pig butchering scams, a variation of business email compromise and romance...
In this episode host Tom Eston discusses one of the biggest privacy concerns people have today, online tracking by companies and advertisers. Tom will cover the following topics, tips, and new techniques to help you stop being tracked: Why should we...
In our last episode of the year, we discuss the year that was 2022. What did we get right? What did we get wrong? And what are our cybersecurity and privacy predictions for 2023? Thank you to all of our listeners for a great year! We’re...
Apple is considering giving third-party app stores access to its iPhones and iPads in the European Union (EU) to comply with new competition law. Will the “sideloading” of apps change Apple’s walled garden of security? Lensa the AI...